If you follow CRAFT, as well, you may have seen Rachel’s post back in January about Oregon jeweler Shannon Conrad’s interlocking Lego rings. Shown above is the result of Shannon’s very first experiment with casting from Lego elements, a one-off solid silver Imperial Stormtrooper minifig she made for her 11-year-old son. It weighs 1.5 oz (44g). I know Lego fanboys who happily would trade their own teeth for one of those.
Lego artist Sean Kenney’s latest creation is a series of over 30 endangered animals, called Creatures of Habitat.
This itty-bitty Lego chess set by Flickr user akunthita is only 12 x 12 studs, which makes it slightly less than 10 cm square. It even has little drawers to hold the pieces. [via The Brothers Brick]
Croatian LEGO fan and architecture student Matija Grguric has made a name for himself with his meticulously-researched recreations of architectural masterpieces — his model of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye made waves when he built it a couple years ago. Matija’s latest project, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, is built at 1:40 scale, uses 15,000 bricks, weighs […]
Check out this excellent Lego spider by Jason “Doctor Moebius” Ruff. Yes, that’s right, Lego — those hairs are actually a multitude of levers that the builder repurposed. Click on the image to see a larger version! [via Brothers-Brick]
19-year-old German Lego fan Kevin Walter used CAD program LDraw to ‘build’ this awesome starship. If actually built the model would be 13′ long by 11′ wide by 5′ high and use 274,350 bricks. See Walter’s Flickr page for more renders. [via Brothers Brick]
